On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 03:51:06PM -0700, Frank Cusack wrote: > On April 12, 2007 5:33:00 PM -0500 Nicolas Williams > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >The same applies to Linux, except that many people believe that the GPL > >would make such a port a derivative (because it'd link with the GPLed > >linux kernel) of GPLed code and that CDDL and GPL are incompatible, > >meaning that you couldn't distribute Linux w/ ZFS. The "linking > >derives" argument is controversial and not tested in court. > > well since this thread has devolved :-) i'll just say i find that to be a > specious argument. like every CS problem, one can always solve the linking > problem with another level of abstraction. which (IMHO) renders the > "linking derives" argument invalid.
Sigh. We have devolved. Every thread on OpenSolaris discuss lists seems to devolve into a license discussion. I have seen mailing list posts (I'd have to search again) that indicate [that some believe] that even dynamic linking via dlopen() qualifies as making a derivative. If true that would mean that one could not distribute an OpenSolaris distribution containing a GPLed PAM module. Or perhaps, because in that case the header files needed to make the linking possible are not GPLed the linking-makes-derivatives argument would not apply. Nico -- _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
